Jun. 8th, 2014 09:13 pm
State of the garden
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muckefuckI took a last stroll around the grounds today, not really for any productive purpose (although I did pull plenty of weeds) beyond recording an impression to hold in my head for a week. This is the time of year where plant growth becomes so intense that you almost feel you can see it occurring in real time. Certainly that's how it feels with the nasturtiums, which were mere sprouts a week ago and are now several inches tall. By the time we come back, we'll be able to start using them in salads. Unfortunately the chives will almost certainly be done blossoming by then. They're in full bloom now and I feel like we've hardly made use of them, although ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu's been gamely obeying my demands to incorporate them into everything from salads to cheeseballs.
There's a load of mulch arriving tomorrow and I feel some regret I won't be there to help spread it. I did hit the devil strip with a handful of bamboo stakes in order to identify any plant I thought worth saving that Scooter couldn't ID. (Essentially, everything but the hostas.) I was chuffed to see that woodruff had survived in another spot, further toward the alley side. When I dug a hole in our garden to bury the catnip pot, I took out a hefty chunk of the woodruff there and planted it next to wherever my test plants from past years had taken root. I also found some lilies-of-the-valley.
In the sunnier spots, pokeweed and lambsquarters is starting to sprout with abandon. There were also some volunteer buckwheat plants from last year's doomed experiment just to taunt me. Clover is doing really well on the corner right now and I've been leaving it there to enrich the soil, but the remainder of the Landscape Team will probably uproot it along with the wild carrot and ryegrass. To the south of the walk, there's a bush with attractive flowers and withered berries wound around the wrought-iron fence that I don't remember seeing before, even though it's actually rooted on our side. I wish it all the best.
monshu's been gamely obeying my demands to incorporate them into everything from salads to cheeseballs.There's a load of mulch arriving tomorrow and I feel some regret I won't be there to help spread it. I did hit the devil strip with a handful of bamboo stakes in order to identify any plant I thought worth saving that Scooter couldn't ID. (Essentially, everything but the hostas.) I was chuffed to see that woodruff had survived in another spot, further toward the alley side. When I dug a hole in our garden to bury the catnip pot, I took out a hefty chunk of the woodruff there and planted it next to wherever my test plants from past years had taken root. I also found some lilies-of-the-valley.
In the sunnier spots, pokeweed and lambsquarters is starting to sprout with abandon. There were also some volunteer buckwheat plants from last year's doomed experiment just to taunt me. Clover is doing really well on the corner right now and I've been leaving it there to enrich the soil, but the remainder of the Landscape Team will probably uproot it along with the wild carrot and ryegrass. To the south of the walk, there's a bush with attractive flowers and withered berries wound around the wrought-iron fence that I don't remember seeing before, even though it's actually rooted on our side. I wish it all the best.